- Production, distribution, exhibition.
Block Booking:
- It was an important part of the studio system
- A studio would sell multiple films to theatres as a unit
- This would typically include only one attractive A-budget movie that the theares really wanted and the rest would be a mix of budget pictures of dubious quality and lower budgeted B-movies
- B-movies use up coming stars. The actors can then get noticed to be in A-movies.
- Block booking gave a freedom to choose what you want to watch
Key term: Monopolisation(having full control and power)
- The big five owned cinemas
- In some cases, one studio would even control all theatres.
- By 1945, the studios owned either partially or outright 17% of the theatres in America, accounting for 45% of the film revenue
- Studios were infamous for owning their stars, a practise that is known as the star system
- In 1945 there was no television, cinemas showed newsreels about the war.
- Studios usually had the actors, producers, directors and writers under contract.
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